The age of digital transformation is firmly here, and with it comes a seismic shift in how businesses must operate if they intend to stay relevant and profitable. Though the role of process in digital transformation is often over-hyped, in truth, it remains a critical element in the fight to win, serve, and retain customers. In this digital age, businesses must holistically reframe their investment in process automation. In short, a compelling vision for process excellence must underpin this digital transformation, thereby transforming customerfacing processes and digitizing operational processes.
The change is so profound that Forrester has renamed the category from business process management (BPM) to digital process automation (DPA). This shift, while continuing to drive down costs and drive up employee productivity, makes customer experience and digital transformation the primary success factors. This represents a powerful and necessary change of focus.
In July 2017, IBM commission

Forrester Research has found that companies that prioritise their customer experience transformation perform better. Companies included in their report, ďDrive Marketing and CX Convergence with Modern Technology,Ē experienced:
68% increase in revenue
67% improvement in market differentiation
72% acceleration of digital business
Delivering customer experiences that produce results like this requires a strategic approach across your company and the ability to turn disparate interactions into a consistent, personalised customer journey. Read this ebook for three strategies that get you started.

H&S Ventures provides management services for the Anaheim Ducks hockey team and its home-ice venueóthe Honda Center. This popular indoor arena hosts scores of events and concerts, and H&S oversees everything from ticket sales to marketing and finance.
H&Sís performance is measured by attendance, big-name bookings and how much fans spend on merchandise and concessions. Digital innovation plays a crucial role in creating a thrilling live experience that raises fansí satisfaction and their average ďspend.Ē

To compete in the digital era, organizations require a skilled and highly productive workforce, empowered by the right technology. Technology decision makers must match highly functional technology to the needs of every worker, enabling each person to have an experience that is productive and fulfilling, while taking organizational competitiveness to the next level. Itís a straightforward mandate, but is not always easy for technology decision makers to achieve.

To compete in the digital era, organizations require a skilled and highly productive workforce, empowered by the right technology. Technology decision makers must match highly functional technology to the needs of every worker, enabling each person to have an experience that is productive and fulfilling, while taking organizational competitiveness to the next level. Itís a straightforward mandate, but is not always easy for technology decision makers to achieve.

To compete in the digital era, organizations require a skilled and highly productive workforce, empowered by the right technology. Technology decision makers must match highly functional technology to the needs of every worker, enabling each person to have an experience that is productive and fulfilling, while taking organizational competitiveness to the next level. Itís a straightforward mandate, but is not always easy for technology decision makers to achieve.

To compete in the digital era, organizations require a skilled and highly productive workforce, empowered by the right technology. Technology decision makers must match highly functional technology to the needs of every worker, enabling each person to have an experience that is productive and fulfilling, while taking organizational competitiveness to the next level. Itís a straightforward mandate, but is not always easy for technology decision makers to achieve.

To compete in the digital era, organizations require a skilled and highly productive workforce, empowered by the right technology. Technology decision makers must match highly functional technology to the needs of every worker, enabling each person to have an experience that is productive and fulfilling, while taking organizational competitiveness to the next level. Itís a straightforward mandate, but is not always easy for technology decision makers to achieve.

To compete in the digital era, organizations require a skilled and highly productive workforce, empowered by the right technology. Technology decision makers must match highly functional technology to the needs of every worker, enabling each person to have an experience that is productive and fulfilling, while taking organizational competitiveness to the next level. Itís a straightforward mandate, but is not always easy for technology decision makers to achieve.

Your network is the foundation to build digital capabilities. Deliver wired, wireless and SD-WAN connectivity with full network intelligence that leads to immersive user experience, simplified operations, and fastest breach detection. Ciscoís next-generation Secure Network solutions are designed for business of all sizes.

The Cisco SD-WAN solution is a cloud-delivered overlay WAN architecture that enables digital and cloud transformation at enterprises. It significantly reduces WAN costs and time to deploy new services, and, builds a robust security architecture crucial for hybrid networks. Enterprises today face major user experience problems for SaaS applications on account of networking problems. The centralized Internet exit architecture is inefficient and results in poor SaaS performance. And branch sites are running out of capacity to handle Internet traffic which is a concern because more than 50% of branch traffic is destined to the cloud. More importantly there are many dynamic changes in Internet gateways and the SaaS hosting servers that lead to unpredictability in performance. The Cisco SD-WAN solution solves these problems by creating multiple Internet exit points, adding high bandwidth at branch locations, and dynamically steering around problems in real-time, resulting is an optimal SaaS

To better understand how companies are finding the unique, hybrid cloud architectures that best meet their needs, we interviewed executives at companies that had reduced or changed their use of managed or cloud IaaS or that chose to avoid the public cloud in the first place.
These companies include retail, social media, healthcare, financial services, and public sector companies. Some of these companies were born in the cloud while others transitioned from traditional IT infrastructures. Company sizes ranged from 300 employees to more than 300,000.

H&S Ventures provides management
services for the Anaheim Ducks
hockey team and its home-ice
venueóthe Honda Center.
This popular indoor arena hosts
scores of events and concerts, and
H&S oversees everything from ticket
sales to marketing and finance.
H&Sís performance is measured
by attendance, big-name bookings
and how much fans spend on
merchandise and concessions.
Digital innovation plays a crucial role
in creating a thrilling live experience
that raises fansí satisfaction and their
average ďspend.Ē

Businesses who have lived through the evolution of the digital age are well aware that weíve
experienced a generational shift in technology. The rise of software as a service (SaaS),
cloud, mobile, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), social media, and other technologies
have disrupted industries and changed customersí expectations. In our always-on, buy
anything anywhere world, customers want their shopping experiences to be personalized,
dynamic, and convenient.
As a result, many businesses are trying to reinvent themselves. Success in a fast-paced
economy depends on continually adapting and innovating. Companies have to move quickly
to keep up; thereís no time for disjointed technologies and old systems that donít serve the
customer-obsessed mentality needed to thrive in the digital age.

In this era of digital disruption, businesses must be more agile to capture opportunities. Many viewed cloud computing technology as the way to do this, promising to address agility, scalability, and cost. But in moving to the cloud, many found that its security, compliance, and performance did not fully meet their needs. Additionally, previous common thought was public cloud is less expensive than private cloud. We now know that is not true in all cases. Savvy businesses realise hybrid IT, which includes both offpremises and on-premises services, enables better agility. After initial experience with public cloud offerings, businesses learned that many workloads are best hosted onpremises, primarily due to security, compliance, performance, control, and cost issues.

Today, people are shopping across multiple channels. There is a need for the retail industry to evolve and create great digital experiences that seamlessly blend the purchase journey.
Download this info-graphic now to learn how retailers are experimenting with technology and how tools like Workplace by Facebook can help retailers innovate.

When thinking about how the workforce is evolving, you need to think about what really matters to employees and how you can integrate technology in the workplace for the digital nomads of today. Corporate real estate, IT, and HR executives need to do a lot to meet those needs and achieve their HR goals.
Cisco has the expertise needed to deliver high-quality mobility and collaboration solutions. We make business-critical communications possible in real time, across multiple channels. Cisco Workforce Experience offers are complete, enterprise-class solutions designed to scale smoothly and make your vision of the digital workspace a reality.

The modern digital experience is very much a visual experience. It's through images that we tell our stories, market our products, impart news, and entertain ó and forge an emotional connection with our customers. However, delivering today's increasingly image-rich experiences is fraught with complexity. It requires dozens of renditions to optimize an image for all the devices that customers are using, not to mention their current network connection. Without an automated system, it's a daunting task. Dynamic imaging technology is the solution.

Advertisers have made great strides in understanding consumersí digital journeys. But in order to truly map the steps of the consumer Ė including bridging the journeys between digital and physical worlds Ė you need advanced location-enabled intelligence. Find out how precise real-world geometry gives you the context you require to create personalized consumer experiences with the HERE and Location-Based Marketing Association (LBMA) white paper.
HERE Technologies gives you the location context you need to make sense of your dynamic user data. Mapping consumer movements to real-world elements such as points of interest, retailers and their building shapes allows you to observe consumer journeys to within meters, and deliver more timely, accurate campaign messages.

This Technology Spotlight examines the role of digital transformation in customer engagement and omni-channel retail. It also looks at the role of Cisco's enterprise networking solution portfolio, particularly Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) and Intelligent WAN (IWAN), in the strategically important omni-channel retail market.

This Technology Spotlight examines the role of digital transformation in customer engagement and omni-channel retail. It also looks at the role of Cisco's enterprise networking solution portfolio, particularly Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) and Intelligent WAN (IWAN), in the strategically important omni-channel retail market.

This Technology Spotlight examines the role of digital transformation in customer engagement and omni-channel retail. It also looks at the role of Cisco's enterprise networking solution portfolio, particularly Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) and Intelligent WAN (IWAN), in the strategically important omni-channel retail market.

Disruptors now harness the power of digital to create new sources of
value that reduce costs, improve the customer experience, and scale
their offerings. Digital disruptors also enjoy a decided innovation
advantage over established companies: they are better able to
identify new opportunities, and move faster to take advantage of
them.
In this intensely competitive environment, startups and agile firms are overturning incumbents with digital business models, products, and services.